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I thought this as well before I had used the language for major projects, but in practice, I found it not the case (at least for me). Your list of concerns I do not find to be anything I think about day to day as I'm coding. I just write code normally for the most part. Yes, you do have to think about your data structures and how you will use them, but in other languages I found myself redesigning these later because I had come up with the wrong paradigm - in Rust I find myself getting these correct the first time, so perhaps the restrictions I find helpful here (I suspect the earlier poster commenting how certain languages fit your thinking patterns may be on to something).

My Rust code typically 'just works' the first time or close to it (something I haven't experienced since writing Haskell and Ocaml), but in other languages I would not experience this, and I'd spend more time debugging. I have gotten stuck a few times in Rust as part of my learning journey, but overall, I'm still proceeding at least as fast if not faster than I wrote in Go and other languages.

Rust is definitely not perfect, and I see some of the warts, but I don't want to write a major project in anything else at this point.